July 27, 2017
Improving Iraq-GCC Relations: No Time Like the Present
With the battle for Mosul over, the Iraqi government now turns to the mop-up stage to eject the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) from its remaining strongholds. It also contemplates the far...
Learn more »July 25, 2017
The GCC Crisis: Media, Hacks, and the Emergence of “Cyber Power”
The current GCC crisis has seen a significant employment of media technologies as tools of conflict and influence. Media and communications platforms were used to launch a negative public relations campaign against Qatar, such as...
Learn more »July 25, 2017
The Day after Mosul’s Liberation
Introduction On July 9, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi claimed victory over the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, or Daesh), after fierce fighting for nine months to retake Mosul, the second largest...
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Palestine Recentered
In the past 10 days, there has been a significant increase in the level of violence in and around Jerusalem. Over 1,000 Palestinians have been injured, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, and seven...
Learn more »July 25, 2017
Hariri Comes to Washington in the Shadow of Hezbollah’s Wars
On July 25, US President Donald Trump received Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri at the White House. The first official meeting between the two leaders comes days after two crucial developments that might have significant...
Learn more »July 24, 2017
The Arab Peace Initiative is Back on the Table; Netanyahu Is Not Budging
Efforts by the Trump Administration to restart the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process have lent a new lease on life to the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002. While the Arab states and the Palestinian Authority may...
Learn more »July 21, 2017
Challenges Facing Algeria’s Future
By any measure, Algeria appears to have overcome the cataclysmic events of its civil war that ravaged it in the 1990s and killed over 200,000 people after its military staged a coup in 1992 to...
Learn more »July 19, 2017
Turkey’s Hard Choices in Syria and Iraq
In the past few weeks, Turkish officials repeatedly affirmed their readiness for an armed invasion of Afrin, a small district in northwestern Syria where the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) declared autonomy in January 2014....
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